--- title: A girl in England found trainers for a tenth of the normal price on… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in England found trainers for a tenth of the normal price on a strange site; her mum paid, the shoes never came and the card was used for other shopping. Who acts: girl, mum, shoes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mum, shoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:23 # text = A girl in England found trainers for a tenth of the normal price on a strange site; her mum paid, the shoes never came and the card was used for other shopping. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | a girl in England | trainers | | a strange site | | for a tenth of the normal price | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trainer=Theme for tenth=Beneficiary | | 2 | **pay** | past | girl's mum | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **come** | past | the shoes | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **use** | past · passive | | the card | | | | for other shopping | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for shopping=Eventuality | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:23`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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